Saffron Powdercap
Pictured is the most common of the Cystodermas in the PNW growing as it nearly always does in moss under conifers. Caps are ochre-tan or orange ochre in color, yellower laterally and often radially wrinkled or reticulated in appearance with hanging whitish veil tissue at the margin. Freshly emerged caps are finely powdery. Basidiocarps have caps that are less than 1.5 inches, with stipes up to nearly three inches. The gills are white and narrowly attached with moderate spacing. The stipes may or may not have a persisting ring, but below the ring zone they are covered densely with light-colored scales or with fragmenting chevrons. Stipes are smooth above the ring and colored tan or beige. There is often a green corn odor. The flesh is thin and white. The species should not be consumed.